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A new king

I stared at it.“You should have told me.”“I did not want to ruin the coronation before it happened.”I touched the tree.The carving was fresh.Very fresh.Someone had made it recently.I looked around.The garden was empty.Then I noticed something beneath the tree.A small envelope.My heart began pounding.I picked it up.Kael stood beside me.“What does it say?”I opened it carefully.There was only one sentence inside.You gave him the crown, and now you have given us exactly what we needed.I stared at the words.Kael's face changed.“What does that mean?”“I do not know.”I folded the letter.But deep inside, something cold had already begun spreading through me.Darren.The thought came immediately.I remembered the way he had smiled when I visited the prison.I remembered Elara telling him to stop talking.I remembered Darren telling me to stop looking only at the person standing directly in front of me.I remembered the warning.I remembered the symbol.I looked toward the

A lifetime of regret

Aria’s POV “You would not dare, and Derek would enjoy the opportunity far too much,” I replied, with a laugh escaping before I could stop it as I imagined the humiliation of being carried through the pack by my cousin.“He would probably ask everyone to applaud him, and Daniella would probably make him do it twice just because she could,” Eros answered, with his expression becoming more amused as he pictured the same thing.The sound of footsteps passed outside our room, and then Derek’s voice came through the door before either of us had invited him inside.“If the two of you are discussing me, I would like it officially recorded that I am a very responsible man, and I would only carry Aria if there were absolutely no other option,” he called, with his voice carrying enough confidence to make it obvious that he had been listening.I sat up immediately, while Eros covered his face with one hand as though he had already lost the strength to deal with the morning.“Derek, if you have b

The audience

Aria’s POV The elders eventually agreed that the coronation would take place three days later, and although I should have felt relieved that the matter had finally been settled, a strange uneasiness followed me when I left the hall.That evening, I walked through the western garden with Eros, and the sky had turned a deep blue above the trees while the lanterns along the path flickered softly in the evening breeze.“I made the right decision, and I know I did, but something still feels wrong,” I said, with my fingers wrapped around Eros’s arm as we walked slowly beneath the trees.“You can believe you made the right decision and still remain careful, and those two things do not have to fight each other,” he replied, with his gaze moving toward the darker edge of the garden.I followed his eyes, and for a moment I thought I saw movement between the trees.Someone had been standing there, because I could have sworn I saw the outline of a shoulder before the darkness swallowed it.Eros

Message

Aria’s POV Eros looked at me, and I could see the same question forming in his mind.“Did your mother ever mention this symbol, and did she ever tell you anything about your father’s house,” I asked, with my voice remaining calm despite the uneasiness growing inside me.Kael shook his head slowly.“She told me that my father had secrets, and she told me that there were people who wanted something from him, but she never explained what it was because she believed knowing too much would put me in danger,” he replied, with his fingers closing around the edge of the map.I looked down at the drawing again, and suddenly Darren’s words came back to me.Ask what Kael brought with him.At the time, I had thought Darren was simply trying to frighten me, but now I wondered whether he had known more than he wanted to admit.“What did you bring with you when you came here, Kael,” I asked, with my eyes remaining on him as I waited for his answer.Kael hesitated, and that hesitation made every ins

He’s real

Aria’s POV “I have spent most of my life believing that I had no one, and I do not think I can go back to that now that I finally know what it feels like to have a family,” he said, with his voice carrying an emotion that made my chest tighten.We began descending the stairs, and the deeper we went, the colder the air became.The walls were covered in old carvings, some of which showed the history of the pack, while others displayed symbols that I had never seen before.At the bottom, we found a large stone chamber with shelves filled with old documents, sealed boxes, and weapons that had not been touched in decades.At the center of the room stood a stone pedestal.On top of it was a small metal container.Kael stepped closer, and the symbol on the container began to glow faintly.Eros immediately moved in front of me.“Do not touch it yet, and we do not know what it is,” he warned, with his weapon raised.Kael stopped, and his eyes remained fixed on the container.Then a sound came

Cell space

Darren’s POV I had spent enough nights behind stone walls to know that a prison never truly became quiet, because even when the guards stopped talking and the prisoners stopped shouting, there was always some sound moving through the corridors, whether it was the scrape of a boot against the floor, the distant clatter of a metal door, the low murmur of someone speaking to himself, or the steady drip of water somewhere beyond the cells.I had also learned that the most dangerous conversations were never the loud ones, because people who wanted to be heard had nothing to hide, while people who were planning something worth hiding usually knew better than to raise their voices.That morning, I sat on the edge of the narrow wooden bed in my cell, staring at the small portion of the corridor visible through the iron bars, while the grey light coming through the high window made everything look colder than it really was.I had been awake for hours, although I had barely slept the night bef

New friends in cell

Darren’s POV Elara did the same, and for several minutes we worked without speaking, although every part of my mind remained focused on the possibility that someone had noticed us.Eventually, another guard called from the opposite end of the yard, and the first guard turned away.Elara lifted her eyes toward me.I gave the smallest nod.She understood.We would find another opportunity.The work continued for another hour, and eventually the prisoners were divided into smaller groups for different tasks.I was sent toward the old storage building with four other men, while Elara was taken toward the eastern side of the yard with another group.I watched her disappear through a doorway, and something inside me tightened because I knew that if we failed to create another opportunity, the chance might never come again.The storage building was colder than the yard, and its walls were lined with shelves containing old tools, broken furniture, sacks of grain, and equipment that the priso

A perfect plot.

Darren’s POV I watched carefully as the guard escorted him toward the far end of the prison.I wondered where they were taking him, and whether he had somehow managed to discover something useful.The answer came several hours later.I was lying on my bed when a faint smell of smoke reached me.At first, I thought it was coming from somewhere outside, but the smell became stronger within seconds.Then someone shouted from the corridor.“Open the eastern cells, and move the prisoners toward the central hall because there is a fire in the lower wing,” a guard yelled, with his voice carrying through the entire prison.I sat up immediately.The corridor erupted into movement, and guards began running from one cell to another while prisoners shouted questions through the bars.Smoke began creeping beneath the doors.My heart started pounding as I moved toward the bars.A guard appeared outside my cell, coughing as he unlocked the door.“Move now, and keep your hands where I can see them b

Who is looking

Darren’s POV What I did not understand was that the fire had not only changed our circumstances, because somewhere beyond the prison walls, another plan had already begun, and whatever happened next would make it impossible for us to know who was using whom.The smoke had begun to thin by the time the guards finished dragging the last bucket of water toward the eastern wing, but the smell of burnt wood remained trapped inside the prison, clinging to our clothes and settling at the back of my throat whenever I breathed too deeply.I sat on one of the wooden benches in the temporary holding room, watching the guards through the open doorway while trying to understand how an ordinary morning of prison work had ended with Elara and me sitting within arm’s reach of each other, something the guards had deliberately prevented since the day we were brought here.Silas sat beside me, rubbing his hands together as though he could still feel the heat from the fire, and although he had complaine

A plan at night

Darren’s POV “I have no interest in helping the guards make my life more miserable, and I have even less interest in spending the rest of my sentence listening to men complain about their wives, their enemies, and the food they have been served,” he answered, with a weary expression as he glanced toward the other prisoners.Elara gave him a dry look.“You must have had a very difficult life if listening to prisoners complain is the thing that troubles you most, and I hope you understand that none of us is going to trust you simply because you have a good sense of humor,” she remarked, with one eyebrow raised.Garrick nodded, and his expression became serious enough to make me listen more carefully.“You should not trust me yet, because I have done nothing to earn it, but I can tell you that I know this prison better than most of the men who guard it, and there are things about the eastern wing that the guards have been trying to repair for months,” he said, with his eyes moving brief

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